If you want to score some easy points with the geek crowd, tell them that DRM (Digital Rights Management) stinks. But with the stress of the elections, I could use a few easy points, so humor me. When you’re evaluating a change to the network, you have to think – always – what will the [...]
Archive | October, 2008
The Internet: Wrong for Twitter, Wrong for America.
Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, recently wrote about a blog post beginning “The Internet is built wrong.” We happen to concur. There aren’t enough pneumatic tubes. But aside from that, Payne’s criticism is that the Internet, designed years ago for pushing text, research data, and code was designed poorly for the problems we have [...]
Azure Like It
Let’s face it, when you think “Operating Systems” you think Microsoft. And if you don’t think Microsoft, you’re obviously a commie mutant traitor, and you should report to the nearest confession and execution booth to confess your treason to Friend Computer. Microsoft has announced their cloud computing OS – officially. InfoWorld has a good article [...]
Interview with ‘Bullied’ Network Engineer on Australian Gov’t Net Filters
Australia’s federal government has planned to require Australian ISPs to use filtering software to remove “illegal” content from Australia’s Internet. They’re spending around $77M (USD) to implement the program which the government had lead people to believe would be optional. Instead, it will be mandatory. Mark Newton, a network engineer with Internode in Australia (but [...]
Fourth Year on the Software 500 – or 100th year on the Software 111110100
For the fourth consecutive year, we improved our standing on Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers. Last year, we were #294 – this year we’ve moved up to #270, and we also rank as one of the top 10 companies in the $30-50M revenue range. We’ve recorded 30 [...]
Bandwidth “shortage” has 1950s precedent.
Most Americans can barely remember a time when there wasn’t enough electricity running to their house or apartment. Oh, certainly, we can remember times when we’d blow a fuse or trip a circuit breaker; but they were rare and usually happened under excessive strain – when the hairdryer and the air conditioner were on at [...]
Best practices equal better performance, says NetForecast
Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel of consulting firm NetForecast recently came out with an article in Network World regarding some results from a survey of 300 companies which asked about application performance management. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll probably have already guessed that those survey results underscore a point we’ve been [...]
Good ways to comply with Bad Laws
According to Inside Higher Ed, one of the provisions of the Higher Education Act, which was passed last August mandates for colleges to police their network for illegally copied copyrighted works. And according with a survey conducted by the Campus Computing Project, this will cost colleges $350,000 to $500,000 a year out-of-pocket to comply. Colleges [...]
What network performance taught me about optimizing a lemon
David Oliver talks about his experiences running the 24 Hours LeMons race in Houston, and how knowing about network performance helped him optimize his junker.
There must be… 20 ways to cut IT costs.
Network World is reporting that Gartner has recommended 20 steps which can be taken to cut IT costs in a recession. These are the same 20 steps which can be taken to cut IT costs during prosperity as well, so even if a miracle happens and the stock market repairs itself tomorrow – might want [...]
Subject: European Symposium
Brian, I’m heading out of town from the European Symposium, and so I won’t be able to get a blog post out before we land. We could talk about the attendee survey – we got 49 responses and all of them said that the overall rating for Symposium Europe was either a 4 or a [...]
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Fast 50
For the fifth consecutive year, NetQoS has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program for Texas, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life sciences companies in North America’s most awesome state and/or province. Seriously. We kick your state and/or province’s butt. (We’d also say it kicks the butt of [...]